Brass Paperweight Compass w/ Rosewood Box 3"

The Hampton Nautical Brass Paperweight Compass with Rosewood Box 3" is truly a great gift to any nautical enthusiast. A beautiful desktop accessory, the compass is a reproduction of a small compass used for navigation. While this brass compass is as beautiful as it is functional, this compass is NOT intended for navigational use but serves as a collector's display piece.

This brass compass comes with a rosewood box embedded with the Hampton Nautical anchor and rope logo. The box is a smooth and polished finish wood with blue felt on the inside to protect the compass.

Key Features:

Polished Brass body

Solid brass construction is stylish and durable

Glass optics for a clear view (not a plastic lens)

Functional Compass operates like a real navigational tool

Rosewood box inset with brass anchor on top

WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Formaldehyde, and Styrene, which are known to the State of California to cause cancer, and Chromium and Toluene, which are known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov

Additional Information

In the age of antiquity in Europe, the Mediterranean, and Africa, magnetism was still not completely understood, though the early Chinese utilized it in their everyday lives. Though the solid brass compass later became a fundamental part of seafaring and the Age of Enlightenment, these early magnetic devices were used for the art of Feng Shui. As the ancient Chinese used compasses to create harmony in architecture, design, and comfort of the home, you can now use this marine compass for sale to lend a touch of history to any room. Some accounts place the inception of the compass as early as 2634 B.C., while others discuss this “tchi-nan” emerging 1500 years later. At this same time the Olmec people, in what is now Mexico, may have possibly developed a compass-like device. Discovered in ancient ruins and dated between 1400 and 1000 BC, a beautiful polished hematite artifact, with grooves that may have been used for sighting, consistently points 35.5 degrees West of North and may also have been an important part of everyday life as well as a work of art. From our marine compass company we offer you this solid brass compass that will one day itself be an antique. From ancient China, to Mexico, to antiquity in Europe and the Mediterranean compasses have been used as a tool and decoration for thousands of years. Place this solid brass compass on a desk for an air of enlightenment, a symbol harkening back to the Age of Discovery.